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Press Pass | Mike Caldwell: "That enthusiasm... it takes it to another level." · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: First, I asked the referee, what was it good? He's
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  Speaker 1: and he he didn't give your answer, And I saw
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  Speaker 1: her rails down there, and you know, a great moment,
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  Speaker 1: uh for the city. You know it was huge. You
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  Speaker 1: go there and you hear all the Dallas fans. But
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, our friends
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  Speaker 1: stood up and uh it was a great atmosphere and
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  Speaker 1: most the fastest you're ran in a while. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think I pulled a muscle. Maybe I'm hurting
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  Speaker 1: only I walk a lot, but uh, yeah, it was exciting,
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  Speaker 1: great moment for us. Jenkins been to your defense so
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  Speaker 1: far this year. I mean that was his first pick six,
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  Speaker 1: like ever, so I mean a hell of a play
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  Speaker 1: to have it on. But how just important has he
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  Speaker 1: been for what you like to do. He's the guy
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  Speaker 1: that he kind of brings a toughness to the secondary.
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  Speaker 1: He's the guy that's physical, he's in the box and
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  Speaker 1: he makes plays. But think about him. He loves to
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  Speaker 1: play the game. You see him out there, He's always
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  Speaker 1: has this energetic look on his face. He's always ready
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  Speaker 1: to go, and you know he just brings excitement to
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  Speaker 1: the team. How much is this or a defense to
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  Speaker 1: have a guy like Racian that energy he brings. How
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  Speaker 1: as much as it sparked them to play well throughout
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  Speaker 1: the entire game, I think we we alre talk about enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have to have. Effort is a given.
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  Speaker 1: You know, effort is given, but that enthusiasm, it takes
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  Speaker 1: it to another level and guys feed off of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, defense makes a play, offense gets going. Offense
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  Speaker 1: makes a play, defense gets going. Special teams do it
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. So it's just the energy you get from
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  Speaker 1: being in the team atmosphere. That's great. Notus this week,
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  Speaker 1: but what have you seen in recent weeks that have
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  Speaker 1: kind of giving you the confidence that he can be
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  Speaker 1: a guy wherever you put him on the field. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the confidence is always there. It's just the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we understand that we have to stop to run on
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  Speaker 1: first and second down and getting in better third down situations.
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  Speaker 1: So those guys get opportunities to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: do what they do well. And that's recurpastor and we've
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  Speaker 1: been doing that and he's taking advantage of it. He's
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  Speaker 1: playing a little bit more with Trade Vaughan being hurt
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  Speaker 1: last week not playing, and you know he can play inside,
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  Speaker 1: he can play outside. He does a good job for us.
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  Speaker 1: And he's another guy that always has excitement in his voice.
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  Speaker 1: He's always talking to guys, He's always getting guys going.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we can't, you know, be any more
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  Speaker 1: happy we have him. What are your oppression to Zach Woodson?
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  Speaker 1: When you watch him? He can make all the throws.
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  Speaker 1: He's a guy that throws from different angles. He can
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  Speaker 1: throw a heck of out ball. And he's this guy
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  Speaker 1: that you see the talent there, you see why he
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  Speaker 1: was drafted so high, and he just makes place for him.
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  Speaker 1: We just have to understand that. You know. We try
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  Speaker 1: to go out there like we do any quarterback, try
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  Speaker 1: to pressure him and get him off his spot and
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  Speaker 1: make him feel uncomfortable when you're coming out of e
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  Speaker 1: y U. He's kind of got that run around mentality.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you see a risk taker. Does that strike you?
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  Speaker 1: Is a guy that will put the ball on the
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  Speaker 1: ground or put the ball in your hands. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that has the opportunity to make plays
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  Speaker 1: and he goes for it. Uh, you look at all
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  Speaker 1: the good ones. You know, you throw guys open in
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  Speaker 1: this league if you wait for God to get open.
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  Speaker 1: See if you're gonna get picked, you're gonna get sacked.
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  Speaker 1: You throw guys open and he trust his arm, which
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  Speaker 1: he should because he can he can sling it, and
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  Speaker 1: he goes out there to make place missed. Last week,
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys talked about how involved he was
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline. I guess you talked about Devin Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: taking a step back, being able to see the game
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  Speaker 1: from a different angle. Do you think they're missing last week?
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  Speaker 1: For tray Bunk can be a similar kind of impact
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  Speaker 1: where you can see the game from a different angle.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny that sometimes it works like that when you
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  Speaker 1: do get a chance to step back and watch your
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  Speaker 1: guys out there playing and put yourself in that same
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  Speaker 1: situation or different situations. It also it helps because you're
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  Speaker 1: not out there worried about the call. You're not out
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  Speaker 1: there worried about the offensive linement across from You're not
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  Speaker 1: out there worried about what situations in the game. You're
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  Speaker 1: just watching the game and watching your specific area, and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it does benefit him. Darius Williams on the outside
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  Speaker 1: the lift two weeks. What have you seen from him?
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh, he's comfortable outside and you can see
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  Speaker 1: the coverage ability he's out there, and I think, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a spot that he feels comfortable playing and he's
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  Speaker 1: making plays. Guys are going after him and he's coming up,
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  Speaker 1: standing up, and it's good for the defense. It's one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest differences between playing outside and playing in
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  Speaker 1: a slot, just fitting against the run. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: the differences. You do have to fit in the run game.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, the speed is different. You're working
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  Speaker 1: against guys that are really have the whole field work on.
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  Speaker 1: When you're outside, you if you get too wide, you
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  Speaker 1: really can't run outside route. So it's to the defensive advantage.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you understand based on being inside that
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  Speaker 1: you know the whole field is really available to the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Got elevated yesterday, Greg Jr. I'm sorry, I got elevated yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: What is the rookie shown you to? Uh? You know
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  Speaker 1: in practice they even shouting him out yesterday when he
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  Speaker 1: was at the podium. It goes back to even like
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  Speaker 1: training the camp. He's a guy that came in um
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  Speaker 1: started learning the system. Now he's been in it and
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  Speaker 1: you can see him week by week. He's out there
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  Speaker 1: staying after practice, getting extra work with the receivers and
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  Speaker 1: gives a great look on the look team. Now he
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  Speaker 1: gets a chance to get elevated and hopefully, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he'll be up and will be get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: get him on the feel and see what he does.
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  Speaker 1: He can do both. He can do both. He can
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  Speaker 1: go outside and go inside, so you know he's another
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  Speaker 1: option to be able to put inside or put outside.
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  Speaker 1: Devin got a lot of reps that inside last week.
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  Speaker 1: Is he taken back over that job or is that
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  Speaker 1: just kind of easing moment back into work. I think
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  Speaker 1: both of those guys really they both complement each other
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  Speaker 1: and will continue to use both of them, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: get Chad going, getting him healthy, and then Devin continue
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  Speaker 1: to let him feel comfortable and make plays. Those guys
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  Speaker 1: are good young players and they're going to continue to
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  Speaker 1: get better. What happened on that one play where he
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  Speaker 1: kind of got to dad, did he think the ball
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  Speaker 1: had already been thrown? It's a thing um when you
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  Speaker 1: look at it. He came on a blitz and that
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  Speaker 1: pump faked it, so he hit him and he thought
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  Speaker 1: that he threw the ball, which happens all the time,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, if you hit the quarterback wrong or
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  Speaker 1: you hit him and you land on him as a
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  Speaker 1: personal file. So we talked about being smart around the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: We said, have to get him to understand that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: let's finish through the play. You don't have to land
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  Speaker 1: on top of him or hit him in the wrong area,
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  Speaker 1: but you can wrap him up and take him to
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  Speaker 1: the ground and don't lay your body on him, for
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  Speaker 1: that's a penalty. Just rolled to the side. But that
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  Speaker 1: comes with experience and comes with you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: just a freak play. He pumped fake hard and everybody
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  Speaker 1: in the stand thought he threw the ball, and then
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  Speaker 1: he kept it. So you know, he'll learn from it
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  Speaker 1: and next time he'll get him down. I know the
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  Speaker 1: Devon and Chad, you guys want to sort of use,
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  Speaker 1: but ideally, if Chad is fully healthy, would you guys
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  Speaker 1: want him to take the majority of the snaps it teams? Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's the direction you guys were heading before he got
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  Speaker 1: to the I don't think the majority. I think both
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  Speaker 1: guys will play and then there'll be certain packages where
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  Speaker 1: we can get uh, you know, three uh three guys
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  Speaker 1: on the field together. Then possibly even getting sekill quarterman
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  Speaker 1: in there and four package of linebacker. So we'll just
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  Speaker 1: weekly whatever the offense presents to us, we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: plan for it and we'll use our personnel to the
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  Speaker 1: best we can. And right now, linebacker of the strength
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  Speaker 1: for us. So we want to get those guys on
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  Speaker 1: the field, just like safety is. If you've got a
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  Speaker 1: couple of positions where we feel really confident in our guys,
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  Speaker 1: So try to get the many of them on the
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  Speaker 1: field we can short week. It fully can't go this week.
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  Speaker 1: How do you replace his impact? Again? Next man up?
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  Speaker 1: That that room has a bunch of players. Uh, Corey's played,
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Ledbetter. You know, we have guys that have played,
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  Speaker 1: Adam Gostis, guys that can play that can step in
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  Speaker 1: and you know, next man up, we gotta put the
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  Speaker 1: guy whoever is healthy. We'll go with them and we'll
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  Speaker 1: go out there and be successful and try to do
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  Speaker 1: our best to get it done. Thank you for m
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay,